Barack Obama: Vampire hunter?

The big question at the WonderCon 2012 film festival in Anaheim this weekend -- can Barack Obama slay vampires?

The upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter features our 16th president as an ax-wielding vampire killer. The movie's celebrity panel was asked if President Obama could lay waste to the undead in the same fashion.

The question brought guffaws from the assembled audience and left Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of the original best-selling Vampire Hunter novel, and star Benjamin Walker squirming for an answer.

"Talk about a question you don't want to touch," Grahame-Smith said.

"Okay," he added. "I think he can pull it off. I'll go there. He's tall and he's in shape. He has a little bit of a bad-ass quality to him."

Walker, who plays President Lincoln in the film, said Obama's weapons of choice would be "diplomacy and e-mail."

Walker said of the commander-in-chief job: "As an American I want to know that my leaders are strong and have the capacity to make decisions ... and cut some heads off."

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